Thank you for that Angel, fascinating link.
- Peter
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Angel Robert Marquez <
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> Faust <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours_(book)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours_%28book%29>
> >
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Peter ciccariello <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > Chris,
> >
> > The bible at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in the late 2960s was Josef
> Albers'
> > "Interaction of Color". (demonstration here at
> > http://www.rotorbrain.com/foote/interactive/hacks/colorinteraction1.html
> >
> >
> >
> > Many times I struggled with the emotional and psychological effects of
> > color, making attempts to modify or control my choices. All attempts were
> > unsuccessful. For me color had a life of its own, its own direction, and
> I
> > have gravitated to different limited palettes since. Photoshop's
> > ‘eyedropper’ tool has been a wonderful tool for me, for it seems that
> color
> > flows from shade to shade, not unlike music or poetry for that matter. It
> is
> > helpful to sample this melody, hue to hue or word to word, like stepping
> > stones into a composition or a narrative. In the end, Albers was simply
> more
> > proof to me that what was ‘out there’ was not at all what it appeared to
> be.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 11:24 -0500, Peter ciccariello wrote:
> >> > http://www.facebook.com/l/afe03;thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/
> >>
> >> This pushed me to think about colour and the ways in which our
> >> understandings and the way colour is thought did change considerably
> >> around 1960 (which also coincided with publication of Ittens elements of
> >> colour in 1961 which links back to the Bauhaus)
> >>
> >> To flatten texture I have been painting objects for the still lifes
> >> using student acrylics and the standard six primary colours (ie warm and
> >> cool so you have warm red and cool red) and basically just for the fun
> >> of mixing colours. However the feeling these colours have seemed to me
> >> to be like graphic design colours (eg Pantone colours) more so then
> >> painterly colours of oil on canvas. Pop art comes to mine or David
> >> Hockney's use of acrylic.
> >>
> >> I did a quick search and my suspicions seem correct so any
> >> comments,leads welcome. (I also play around with mixing colours on a
> >> computer screen)
> >>
> >>
> http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/livingcolor/index.html
> >>
> >> http://moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/30
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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